In view of the events in Samara and Omsk, the interruption of
railway traffic between Perm and Vyatka and the complete
uncertainty as to the transport situation on the Perm–
Ekaterinburg-Tyumen line, which have completely cut off Siberia, without waiting
for your consent I am sending by water route the technical workers
from Vyatka and Ufa gubernias about whom I informed you in
telegram 363. Please receive them and put them to work immediately by
distributing them among the places of grain procurement and, if
necessary, among the places along the routes for dispatching and
forwarding grain. Among those being sent are top-level people
absolutely suitable for technical work in the centre and in the
Extraordinary Regional Food Committee, and efficient organisers for grain
collecting in the localities. To use these people, For whose honesty
I am ready to vouch, is essential and inevitable, since no greater and
better technical forces are to be found. Offer them to fix the rate of
their remuneration themselves and, although I am sure of their being
sufficiently modest, I recommend you not to stint payment for their
work. Telegraph me.